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Monday, 15 October 2012

New books for Sligo and Westmeath

With thanks to Jim Ryan for the following:

Tracing your Westmeath Ancestors / Tracing your Sligo Ancestors

Two new additions to our series of County Guides are now available. They show how to access the records available for family history research in Sligo and Westmeath, and how they can be best used. Each provides background information on how the records for the county were compiled; what information is contained; and on which categories of people. It also provides background on the social history of the counties and how this history has affected the keeping and survival of records.